Flavio Bucci

Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film producer.
Biography
Born in Turin, Bucci began appearing in film and television in 1971, making his debut appearance in the film The Working Class Goes to Heaven. He is known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's Suspiria and for playing the thuggish Blackie in Aldo Lado's 1975 Night Train Murders. Another one of Bucci's iconic appearances was in the 1978 film Closed Circuit directed by Giuliano Montaldo, with whom he made several film collaborations with.
On stage, Bucci appeared in adaptations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Clown and more. He also recited poems written by Giacomo Leopardi.
Bucci had a rare career as a voice dubber during the 1970s and 1980s. He dubbed John Travolta in his earlier films as well as Sylvester Stallone in The Lords of Flatbush. His character dubbing roles for television include Potsie Weber in the first two seasons of Happy Days and Luke Duke in the first five seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard.
Personal life
Bucci had two children from his marriage to actress Micaela Pignatelli, Alessandro and Lorenzo. He also had a son, Ruben from his second marriage to Dutch film producer Loes Kamsteeg.
On 18 February 2020, Bucci died of a heart attack in Fiumicino, at the age of 72.
Filmography
Cinema
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) - Operaio
Lover of the Great Bear (1971)
Il generale dorme in piedi (1972) - Bucci (uncredited)
Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) - Total
Last Stop on the Night Train (1975) - Blackie
I giorni della chimera (1975)
And Agnes Chose to Die (1976) - Il pugliese
Strange Occasion (1976) - Réné Bernard - the director (segment "Italian superman")
La Orca (1976) - Gino
Suspiria (1977) - Daniel
A Spiral of Mist (1977) - Vittorio Conte - The Doctor
Dove volano i corvi d'argento (1977) - Simula
Closed Circuit (1978, TV Movie) - Sociologist
Gegè Bellavita (1978) - Gennarino Amato
Ammazzare il tempo (1979) - Igor
To Love the Damned (1980) - Riccardo 'Svitol'
Men or Not Men (1980) - Enne 2
The Homeless One (1981) - Il matlosa
Il Marchese del Grillo (1981) - Fra' Bastiano
The Magic Mountain (1982) - Ludovico Settembrini
Dream of a Summer Night (1983) - Oberon
The Incinerator (1984) - Hunchback
The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985) - Terenzio Papiano
Tex and the Lord of the Deep (1985) - Kanas
La donna delle meraviglie (1985) - Astolfo
Il giorno prima (1987) - Herman Pundt
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987) - Mr. Talbot - the Werewolf
Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1987) - Erode
Com'è dura l'avventura (1987) - Padre Ribaldo
Control (1987, TV Movie) - Pietro Brisani
La posta in gioco (1988) - Gulli
Anni 90 (1992) - Professor Moira ("Terapia di gruppo")
Pierino Stecchino (1992)
Amami (1993) - Piero Pagani
Teste rasate (1993) - Riccardo
Quando le montagne finiscono (1994) - Bepi Zomegnan
Fratelli coltelli (1997) - Vannino
My Dearest Friends (1998) - Botanico
Frigidaire - Il film (1998) - Nat Krylov
Lucignolo (1999) - Padre di Lucio
Muzungu (1999) - Bishop
Volesse il cielo! (2002) - Uomo Angelo
Hotel Dajti (2002) - Andrea anziano
Lettere al vento (2003)
Caterina in the Big City (2003) - Lorenzo Rossi Chaillet
Il silenzio dell'allodola (2005) - Direttore del carcere
Flying Lessons (2007) - Leone, padre di Pollo
La morte di pietra (2008) - Pierre
Il Divo (2008) - Franco Evangelisti
Fly Light (2009) - Barbone
Border Line (2010)
La scomparsa di Patò (2010) - Capitano Arturo Bosisio
La grande rabbia (2016) - Virgilio,Padre Matteo
Tutto può accadere nel villaggio dei miracoli (2016) - Armando Lucchi
Il vangelo secondo Mattei (2016) - Franco Gravela
Borghi e Demoni (2017) - Padre Superiore
Agadah (2017) - Vecchio Moreno
Il grande passo (2017) - Umberto Cavalieri
Credo in un solo padre (2019) - Zio Domenico Bianco
La Cornice (2019) - Il pittore
Dubbing roles
Live action
Danny Zuko in Grease
Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever
Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush
Stuart Richards in Cruising
Potsie Weber in Happy Days (seasons 1–2)
Luke Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard (seasons 1–5)
References
External links
1947 births
2020 deaths
Film people from Turin
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male voice actors
Italian film producers
Male actors from Turin
Nastro d'Argento winners
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors